They are buried side-by-side at Crab Creek Baptist Church cemetery near Henderson ville, their gravestone also holds the record for The world's largest granite gravestone. Benny died at age 54 in the year 2001 after a prolonged wrestling career in which he occasionally teamed up with wrestling legend Andre the giant. Sadly, Billy died in July, 1979 at the age of 32 from a fall at a mini-bike stunt at Niagara falls. At the age of 10, their weight increased to 200lb(90.7kg) and by highschool they already weighed 600lb(272kg).Īs wrestlers, they took the professional name- "McGuire twins" because people had difficulty pronouncing McCrary. In an interview with Inside wrestling magazine, Benny confirmed that they started gaining weight in pounds from age 4 after suffering from German measles, which destroyed their pituitary glands (where growth hormones are secreted). You must be thinking- "Man!! These guys sure eat a lot of food!!", but their diet actually consisted of normal sized meals. They we're even involved in swimming and enjoyed it without drowning. They drove custom-built vehicles and were able to fly by booking two seats each on the plane. In an interview with people's magazine, Benny said that despite their weight, they were very much active and they were married. Billy topped the record with the weight of 337kg(743lb), while Benny weighed 328kg(723lb). The world's fattest twins- Billy Leon McCrary and Benny Loyd McCrary born prematurely on the 7th of December, 1946 won the world record for the fattest twins in November 1978. The Guinness world records is a reference book published annually, listing world records of both human achievements and extremes of the natural world.
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